http://abcnews.go.com/International/wire...s-33649037. Rescue workers searched through a flooded city near Tokyo on Friday, hunting for missing people a day after raging floodwaters broke through an embankment and washed away houses and forced dozens of people to rooftops.

http://www.usatoday.com/story/news/natio.../29921633/ In this El Niño year, if the models hold up — and climatologists said they seem almost certain it will — it could soon be the beginning of the end of California's historic drought, even if it may come at a price.
"Yes, El Niño's great, and it could provide us with relief and replenish some of these reservoirs," Woods said. "The flip side of that is it could mean catastrophic flooding, too."